BARTENDING

What makes bar work, unacceptable for some people?

A. Drunkenness
B. Disorderliness
C. Immorality

What are the two kinds of beverage sold in the bar?

1. Non – Alcoholic Beverage
- soft drinks (soda), juices, carbonated water, tea, coffee, fun drinks, milky,
chocolate. There are no alcoholic content in the drinks they have offered (for) to
everybody.
2. Alcoholic Beverage
- These are the beverage with alcoholic content. They can be only offered to
adults, never for children.

(3) Kinds of Alcoholic beverage, depending on the quality of alcohol it contains.

These are:

A. Malt - any alcoholic beverage brewed from malt. Malt is grain (beer) its
alcoholic content manages from 1% to 7% alcohol.

B. Wine - made from grapes & other fruits. Its alcohol content is between 7% to
21% alcohol. These are appetizer wine, table wine, fortified, aromatic wines &
sparkling wines, wine can be categorized whether whit or red or rose wine.
 > Red – (dry) lacking of sugar
> White – vary in sweetness, range from the very palest straw-color, to deep
dark brown. Its more than just water & alcohol. The bible calls it blood of the grapes
wine is a living things, in a constant state of change.

C. Spirit - these are alcoholic beverage that are made by dilation rather than
fermentation. The alcoholic content ranges 21% hp.

Different kinds of Spirits:

1. Gin - considered as the most essential liquor in a bar. Made from mash of cereal
grains. Most gin are calories, but some are different shades - yellow, gold & pink.
ex. Gilbeys, tanguerray, home of lord, Gordon, beef eaters, Seagers
2. Vodka - name of Russia & Poland. It is made from the (fermentation) fermented
corn, wheat or potatoes. It is distilled similar to whisky because it is colorless,
tasteless, aroma less, vodka blend well with any non-alcoholic beverage most popular
cocktail mixing vodka is (screw driver).
ex. – Absolute
- Stolichnaya
- Smirnoff
- Finolandia
- Cossack
3. Brandy & cognac
• Brandy – is the oldest of all liquors & generally considered the finest. It is distilled
wine.
• Cognac – is the finest brandy. It is a brandy exclusively produced in the region of
(LA cognac France).
- VSOP – very superior old pale
-M - mellow
-X - extra
-F - fine
All cognac are brandy, but not all brandy are cognac.
(Brandy) ~Fundador ~ Veterano ~Leta ~Lebact
~ Napoleon ~ Bouchard ~ Lelong
~ Carlos Primero ~ Kel’bo – how gracious ~ Levi
(Cognac)
~ Remy Martin (Martan)
~ Martell
~ Courvoisier (convosey)
~ Bisquit (bis-kit)
Prince Hubert De Polignac (pol-lin-nyak)
Brandy Service: it is always served straight with a glass of cold water on side.

4. Tequilla – produced in Mexico & made from cactus. It can be taken straight serve
with iodized salt & slices of lemon with the drinker lick & bite before drinking the
tequila. (lick, soak, shot)
5. Rhum / Rum
- is basically spirit distilled from molasses. It is produced in almost are sugar
producing country, source. It is a by product of sugar production.
Ex. Tanduay, Anejo, Bacardi, Ron Rico & Rhum Negrita.

6. Whisky
- is any spirituous liquor, made from grain. Scotch & Irish whiskies are usually made
from barley.
Ex. Whisky (scotch) Johnny Walker Black Label (for premium)
Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky (for regular)
Tea cher
Swing
 Ex. Are Johnny Walker Red Label, grants, black & white

7. Liqueurs
- It is an after dinner drink. It is distilled from a combination of alcohol & aromatic
herbs, spices, fruits & nuts. And sweetened, it is serve in a petite elegant liqueur glass
at room temperature.
Ex. Bailey’s Cream
Peter Heering – (Peter heeh-ring) Kahlua – (ka-lu-wah)
Crème De Menthe – (krem-de-ment) Drambuie – (dram-boo-wee)
Cointream – (Kwan-troh)
Crème De Cacao – (krem-de ka-kaw)
Curacao – (kew-rah soh)
Aperitif
Ex. Campari
Ver Mouth – (vere-moot)

Champagne
Ex. Mercier – (mer-shyay)
Moet et Chandon – (mwet eh-shan-don)
Cordon Rouge – (kordon ruze)
What is a Cocktail?
Is a well iced mixed drink made up of base liquor, a modifying ingredients & a
special flavorings & coloring ingredients.
What is a cocktail for?
Cocktail is taken to wait the appetite of the diners. It aims in digestion & induce
relaxation.
When do you stir?
1. When the mixture is wine & wine.
Ex. Merry Widow Cocktail
2. Spirit & Wine
Ex. Martini
3. Spirit with Spirit
Ex. Black Russian
4. Spirit with wine & carbonated water
Ex. Whisky Soda
5. Spirit Wine with Fruit Juice
Ex. Screw Driver
6. We stir to maintain the effervescence of the drink.
How to stir?
Get a bar spoon (teaspoon with long handle) stir briskly but lovingly. Not more
than 12 round clockwise & then up & down. Avoid to long mixture, it will melt the ice
& make the drink watery.
When do you shake?
1. We shake if mixture is
Wine or spirit with fruit juice & syrup
2. With egg
3. With cream
Shaker Contains 3 parts:
- The body, shoulder, and head
Used large cracked ice – shake with rhythm and music.
1 jigger – 1 ½ - 2ozs.
What are the different tools & equipment in the bar?
1. Bar Shaker – (metal or glass)
- most popular is metal but glass is better singe it is bar connector of heat. It will
melt & diluted the cocktail at a slower rate.
2. Long handled bar spoon – use for stirring
3. Fine Strainer – to separate the ice from the mixtures
4. Corkscrew – for opening bottle of wine
5. Can opener
6. Fruit squeezer
7. Fruit knife
8. Swizzle stick, for stirring champagne to have bubbles.
9. Wooden cocktails sticks or toothpicks
10. Coaster, straws
Some rules for the bar man:
1. Never overfill the cocktail shaker
- If you sell 12 quarts beer pay. If you over pour 1/8 ounce. If you change of
11.00 per ounce. In one year time, you give away something like 35 cases of ₱
87,500.

2. Use the correct glass in serving drinks. (The reason is purely psychological)

3. Garnish your drink delicately neatly, then serve it with pride & joy. It must appeal
to the sense of taste, smell, sight & taste.
Remember: The appearance of drinks, has a great eye-appeal. The professional
tough is given when it is well garnished with fruits.
Presenting The Bill:
Be observant during the order taking, if you think the customers will pay for their
own ordered, ask them immediately, by saying “Excuse me ma’am, will this check be
separate or one? If separate tell the cashier immediately.

Popular cocktails:
1. Four Season (Katas ng panahon)
1 jig. Pineapple Juice
1 jig. Orange Juice
1 jig. Mango Juice
1 jig. Guyabano Juice
Grenadine Syrup
2. Screw Driver
1 ½ ozs. Vodka
Fresh Orange Juice
3. Orange Squash
Orange Juice
Soda – Water
4. Shirly Temple
Spirit & grenadine Syrup
5. Shandy
Beer & Sprite
6. Mestiza
Beer & Orange
7. Beer Buster
1 oz. Vodka
1 Bottle of cold beer, in a pilsner glass with ice, pour vodka first, followed by cold
beer (stir)
8. Boiler Maker
1 jig. Whisky
Beer
9. Gin Tonic
1 jig. Gin & soda water plus lemon
2 jig. Gin & soda water plus lemon
10. Vodka Tonic
1 jig. Vodka & soda water with lemon
2 jig. Vodka & soda water with lemon
11. Alexander’s Cocktail
1 jig. Gin
1 jig. Crème De Cacao
1 jig. Milk – (shake)
12. Gimlet
2 oz. Gin
¾ oz. lime juice plus cherry
13. Whisky Soda
1 jig. Whisky (spirit)
1 bottle of soda water (carbonated water) on a tall glass, put ice & pour the
whisky followed by soda water. (stir)
14. Weng – Weng
1 jig. Vodka 1 jig. Orange Juice
1 jig. Gin 1 jig. Mango Juice
1 jig. Brandy 1 jig. Guyabano Juice
1 jig. Tequila
1 jig. Rhum
1 jig. Whisky
1 jig. Pineapple Juice
15. Brandy Alexander
1 oz. Brandy
1 oz. Crème De Cacao
Screw Driver
1 ½ Vodka (spirit)
Fresh Orange Juice (fruit juice)
A slice of orange